http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/ Engadget Comments for Iomega introduces StorCenter ix4-200d NAS http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/Aug 28th 2009 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/Aug 28th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/Aug 28th 2009 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/
The FTC and Attorney Generals should investigate them. Those devices have such shoddy firmware on them that your chance of losing all you data on the RAID is very very high.

Guess what Iomega's response is? Pay us $3000-$5000 dollars and we will get it back for you.

You can't even take the drives out and attempt to use software to restore the RAID. Those idiots are using something non-standard and proprietary.

Use Iomega at your peril.....]]>Aug 28th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/
Don't buy one unless you are comfortable spending at least $350 *without* harddrives. For some reason, all of the cheap consumer NAS companies (and many "consumer" units from the more established NAS makers) use slow-as-molasses chip sets in their units. Seriously, nearly all of the cheap consumer NAS units from Western Digital/Linksys/Iomega/Buffalo/etc can barely do 10MB/sec even over a gigabit network. It is not even worth it.

If you don't want to spend $500+ to get a decent NAS, the best thing to do is to buy one of the small Intel Atom "net-top" boxes with eSATA and then buy an external drive (with eSATA connection). Even a drive connected via USB2 will be significantly faster than the NAS. Then just connect it to your network. If you are really geeky, you can install FreeNAS, Windows Home Server, or linux on the net-top and use it as a file/media/backup server.

I ask that you guys rate me up so more people can see this --- for their benefit. I just went through this whole process, and many people that don't end up very disappointed with an expensive "consumer NAS" paperweight.]]>Aug 28th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/Aug 28th 2009 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/4x 1TB SATA drives = £200
4TB NAS for £250 which is also a server so I can set tasks on it if needed = better than an iomega POS]]>Aug 28th 2009 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/Aug 28th 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/28/iomega-introduces-storcenter-ix4-200d-nas/The 8TB Data Robotics Drobo Hard Drive Enclosure comes in around $ 1,399.00 on their site (I can find it for a slightly cheaper at a few sites). Won lots of awards.

The 7.5TB LaCie 5big Network comes in at $1,499.99 on their site.

Either way you cut it Iomega seems to be about $400-$500 over the going price. A lot of extra coin for only a few small extra features. Given it is new I would assume you would want to be a bit competitive and bring it in at under $1500 to the 8TB version.






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